Vikash Yadav directed a plot to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen, the U.S. indictment says.

The Justice Department announced charges against a former Indian government employee in the murder plot against dual U.S.-Canadian citizen Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a prominent Sikh separatist. In a statement Thursday,

The US Justice Department unsealed the indictment of Vikash Yadav, 39, alleging he led a plot to murder a Sikh separatist in New York.

An indictment unsealed reveals U.S. charges against ex-Indian intelligence officer Vikash Yadav for involvement in an assassination plot in New York.